[Red Badger]

We had at work back then, 79-80, PDP-11’s that used 8 inch floppies!..................

[printhead]

HP-21MX Series had 9895A 8” dual-floppies as a storage option. I would have to replace the felt pads that pressed the floppy against the read/write heads.

[tophat9000]

Yep I ran a PDP8...to boot you had to enter the bootstrap loader on the front panel via 16 switch's (16 bits)...think it was five opt codes you had to enter in the first five memory locations...then hit run... this then would boot a “pizza box” drive (16 inch cartridge platter)

Then fully booted still no gui, not even a CRT display... the interface terminal was a Teletype...oddly that machine had the old “Star Trek” game ...
output in ASCII drawings.. the first computer game was not a video game.. it was a teletype printer game ;)